Many people seem to think that question closure means that the question has come the end of its lifecycle here, while it's clearly not so. As part of making things more clear to the folks asking why it's closed, "Vote to Close" will undergo several changes"Vote to Close" will undergo several changes.
To summarize the changes, these are already live:
Questions closed as duplicate show as [duplicate], not [closed] and a Duplicate question must link to a question with an answer
Questions edited by the OP within five days of closure go into the re-open queue (live since Feb)
In the upcoming week or so, following changes are due to come:
- Questions will display as [on hold], rather than [closed] for the first five days after closure.
- Questions put [on hold] will still not accept answers, and will behave identically to [closed] questions. The language will change to [closed] if the question is not re-opened within five days, to continue to serve as a clear long-term signpost
"Not a real question" and "not constructive" are being replaced with "unclear what you’re asking", "too broad", "primarily opinion-based".
Off-topic closures will include feedback as to why they are closedinclude feedback as to why they are closed.
- The feedback can be a boilerplate reason, or a free-form text field which will be shown as a comment.
Now that you've been briefed about the changes - what should Super User have as its pre-defined list of off-topic reasons?
